MC GOVERN
Mc Govern SINCE the last issue of La Follette's, McGovern has plunged bodily into the Roosevelt tar barrel. If anything were needed to interpret the true significance of his course at Chicago, his...
...The state Returned to the counties, and to the several school treasuries for educational purposes, $2,887,114.21, and expended the balance for the university, normal schools, new capitol and an addition to the Northern Hospital for the Insane...
...It is a time for serious thinking and deliberate action...
...If anything were needed to interpret the true significance of his course at Chicago, his action at this time is quite conclusive...
...Last June, after the Chicago Convention, La Follette's said: "Existing conditions are intolerable...
...MORE INIMICAL to progress than the man who has too much is he who has enough and yet wants more.—Edwin Bjorkman...
...And has not the fire of the people's wrath almost consumed them...
...What-not ¶ THE SPRINGFIELD REPUBLICAN SAYS: "In a new and highly technical 'History of English Prose Rythms' the learned Professor Saintsbury finds in prose twenty-two different kinds of metrical feet—the iamb, the pyrrhic, the spondee, the trochee, the amphibrach, the anapaest, the anti-Bacchic, the Bacchic, the cretic, the dactyl, the molossus, the tribrach, the antispast, the choriamb, the diamb, the dispondee, the ditrochee, the epitrite, the ionic, the paeon, the procleusmatic, and the dochmiac...
...Are not the priests suspected of being no better than those of Bel and Dragon, or, rather of being worse than those of Baal...
...THE NET INCREASE OF LAND VALUES in the city of New York for a period of ten years, from 1900 to 1910, was more than the combined gross output of all the gold and silver mines of the United States by $170,000,000 and greater by $278,000,000 than all the dividends paid during this time by all the railroads of the United States...
...It will be a neighborly act...
...I plead guilty to being one, in the last analysis, of those men...
...For what greater robbers can there be than those who rob men of their liberties...
...There will be no relief should the trusts, any of them, succeed in spreading confusion among the people, through which Privilege may again slip safely into control at Washingon...
...It would be fatal to the Progressive Movement were it dragged along a crooked trail...
...It rapidly advanced its control, shaping the policies of state administrations and stamping its impression upon national legislation as a distinctly progressive Republican movement, and upon this fact in recent political history I appeal to Progressive Republicans everywhere to maintain their organization within the Republican party...
...We quote the following paragraph from an article published a few weeks ago in this magazine by Secretary of State James A. Frear on "The Cost of Progressive Government:" "In 1911 the state collected a general property tax amounting to $3,746,561, of which over $2,500,000 was apportioned and returned to the counties for educational purposes, and nearly $400,000 more was returned to certain localities...
...A good idea keeps on spreading...
...And bullets are not venison...
...THE SUGGESTION that the judiciary is not entirely above suspicion is not so recent as some people regard it...
...It is in a spirit of service to the Progressive cause that these articles are published...
...A crisis is at hand...
...He will not last...
...to remove forever from control of the agencies of government those big privileged interests whose aggressions have brought the country to the present crisis...
...To the people they appear the temples of idols and false oracles...
...that he is progressive only in words...
...These wrongs have ripened into oppression in the last dozen years, under the administration of the two men, Roosevelt and Taft, who, fiercely contending for another lease of power, have rent asunder the Republican party organization...
...To maintain such an organization, blind allegiance to every party nomination and to every party declaration is not essential...
...The act was performed with bravado...
...if it is menaced we are all equally concerned...
...Roosevelt appeals to Progressives to join his party...
...Fortify yourselves with the facts...
...What kind of a trail is it...
...These, in round numbers, are the tax statistics for 1910 in a nut shell: The people paid in direct taxes, $28,660,000...
...but bullets properly used may be the means of obtaining venison...
...The railroads, the trusts, the tariff, the money power, control in government, and the burdens upon the people grow heavier every day...
...or rather as the dwellings of truth and justice converted into dens of thieves and robbers...
...FOLLOWING THE EXAMPLE of state universities in the Middle West, notably Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota, the Massachusetts Agricultural College is going to engage a "rural social engineer"—a trained expert to work with the farmers in improving conditions of farm life, rural educa tion, and neighborhood sociability...
...Straight or devious...
...High Taxes" A CANDIDATE for the legislature in Wisconsin writes: "I am asked to explain why the taxes are 'high.' Some people claim it is because the state government is extravagant...
...During the same fiscal year the several towns, villages, cities, and counties of the state collected taxes amounting to $26,231,422, to which was added the $2,900,000 apportioned from the state treasury, making a total of over $29,000,000, not one dollar of which was expended by the state...
...Principles and issues must constitute the basis of any great movement...
...But it would have been a finer example of courage to have taken his high dive before he was safely nominated...
...the state administration expended $1,220,000 for the purposes above named, and the several counties, cities, villages and towns expended $27,440,000...
...and it is for that reason that I would render their characters as pure and unsullied as the driven snow...
...On that occasion Edmund Burke said—and his speech has a very contemporary ring: "In vain do some gentlemen tread their halls as holy ground or reverence their courts as the temples of Divinity...
...And during his long career before the public, Roosevelt left behind him a trail that, despite the frequent use of the red herring of "square deal," is plain enough to be followed all the way...
...Millions of citizens have, within the last five years, come to look to the Progressive Movement for relief from the oppression of a trust-government...
...The state government is not responsible, not even remotely, for "high taxes...
...The progressive cause is the cause of all of us...
...nor to cut your cross to your own liking...
...regardless of platform promises or progressive principles...
...You are neither to load nor unload yourself...
...At the same time they paid into the state treasury $8,607,929...
...He must have the FACTS...
...Not one cent for actual state government...
...Fortify Yourself With Facts IN THE FIRST issue of La Follette's, nearly four years ago, it was announced: "No eminence of position in party or government shall protect a servant of the people from deserved criticism, and its approval will be gladly given to all who commend themselves to it by brave and right action in any party or place...
...The balance was collected to build the new capitol, a hospital for criminal insane, and for the university and normal schools...
...It is not by their words, but by their acts that really "ye may know them...
...a position where The Big Stick may be threshed about to corral the "bad" trusts into the pen and the "good" trusts into the clover patch...
...No man here has a greater veneration than I have for the doctors of the law...
...And yet there are people who say that writers lead an easy life...
...Read the offer, "Better Still" on page sixteen...
...No party was ever successfully organized about a man...
...Roosevelt appeals for recognition as the leader of the Progressive Movement in the nation...
...This is the "unearned increment" or "socially created values" which Henry George maintained should bear the expenses of government...
...Later, in a signed editorial, Senator La Follette said, in part: "In no partisan spirit I repeat that the progressive movement began within the Republican party...
...It is in behalf of the great fundamental principles to which La Follette's is devoted that the facts are herein set forth to illuminate the public record of the Ex-President, even as from week to week the facts have been set forth regarding the public records of Senators and Representatives and other public servants without regard to "eminence of position...
...Beginning in this number, Senator La Follette's review of Roosevelt's record, and of Roosevelt's whole course with respect to Progressive principles, will present the facts, in detail, upon which the public may get Roosevelt's true measure...
...Above all he must know what forces are at work in this campaign...
...But will any of you pretend that this at present is the case...
...LA Follette's earnestly appeals to every real progressive to hold fast to principle and keep his powder dry...
...REMEMBER you are to go the road which you see to be the straight one...
...Are not their temples profaned...
...carrying whatever you find is given you to carry, as well and as stoutly as you can...
...without making faces, or calling people to come and look at you...
...But in the face of even greater misfortunes than this the Wisconsin progressive cause has survived and steadily advanced...
...We earnestly request you to read all of Senator La Follette's articles and to place them in the hands of your friends...
...All you have really to do is to keep your back as straight as you can, and not think about what is upon it— above all not to boast of what is upon it.—Ruskin...
...As far back as 1770, Sergeant Glynn moved in the British Parliament the appointment of a committee to inquire into the administration of justice in cases relating to the press...
...Reynolds who confessed at a little family gathering of financial bankers last December that, "I believe the money power now lies in the hands of a dozen men...
...Or to place a madly ambitious individual again in a position of supreme power...
...It is of supreme importance that voters have the answer to that question...
...Going back another year, we find these facts: In 1910 the people of Wisconsin paid in taxes, for county, city, village and town purposes, $26,064,860.28...
...Reynolds GEORGE M. REYNOLDS, president of the Continental and Commercial National Bank of Chicago, voicing his opposition to a genuine investigation of the Money Trust in a recent speech, declared, "I disclaim any knowledge of any 'money trust' of any character and I do not believe any such trust exists...
...In the end the people of this country will get his true measure...
...Senator La Follette's "inside" story of the momentous happenings that have recently been shaping history, and his contribution to public knowledge of the character of Roosevelt, as disclosed in his official activities, will, we believe, help to prevent the exploitation of the Progressive Movement to the gratification of personal ambition and the selfish interests of a powerful section of Wall Street...
...Roosevelt's whole record demonstrates that he has no constructive power...
...IT WAS APPROPRIATE to hold the first Canadian town planning conference in Winnipeg, a city with few slums, an ordinance ensuring wide streets, municipal care of her trees and shrubs, and a town planning Commission to enhance her future...
...It "musses him up" shockingly as a Progressive Republican candidate for Governor of Wisconsin...
...Has not pollution entered them and penetrated even to the Holy of Holies...
...And during this time this land was paying satisfactory dividends on its investment...
...Passion and prejudice rage about us...
...The situation, now more than ever before, calls upon "every real progressive to hold fast to principle and keep his powder dry...
...This is the same Mr...
...To bring about the establishment of real democracy and equality of opportunity...
...The regular state expenses are met by taxes collected from public service corporations, inheritances, office fees, etc...
...Helping WILL YOU HELP us to secure a great audience for Senator La Follette's articles on Roosevelt's record as President and as third term candidate...
...Those figures were for 1911...
...that he is ever ready to compromise in order to win...
...To what end...
...And, referring to the New Party organized around Roosevelt's ambition for another lease of presidential power, La Follette's said: "Mr...
...Show it to a neighbor—only one—and see if he isn't desirous of getting the "inside" story of the Roosevelt candidacy...
...VOTES ARE NOT BREAD," says President Taft...
Vol. 4 • October 1912 • No. 40
